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Hi My Name is Mark Hidden, I am not sure what is in a name, but I have been rethinking philosophy and thinking from the ground up, applying information theory to everything. Currently I call myself and functional informationnalist. My grand theory is basically this. There are two types of information, that which confines us, and that which defines us, the physical world confines us, and our values define us. I suspect you have no problems with we should act in accordance to our values, but we are forced by confining variables to act with regards to the limits whatever they maybe. Now this alone get’s us nowhere fast, However, Alex Wissner-Gross an AI researcher came up with an interesting formula suggesting that intelligence seeks to maximise future freedom. Freedom maybe a fundamental characteristic of intelligence. So we don’t have to justify our desire for future freedom, we can understand that it is an intelligent behavior. But this says nothing about how we should treat others, but we would assume how we treat others should be related to benefiting us in terms of our future freedom. To understand my functional nature I sum it up like this. There are Good answers, there are the best answers, and then their are the answers that will work. My working values: 1) I want to be held accountable, but I also want the right to change my mind. 2) Tell me I am wrong, and I will be angry, prove to me I am wrong and I will be in your debt. 3) I take ownership of all my ideas, even if I stole them from some dead guy. In other words no one is to blame accept me, and my interpretation. 4) I believe Ethics is the workible shared arrangement of values. 5) I believe absolute values, are poisonous. 6) I believe values are context sensitive and should be understood hierarchically 7) I believe punishment for punishment sake is ethical junk food. 8) I like the idea of money. 9) I believe their are compatible and incompatible value systems, and isolation maybe necessary. 10) I do not believe any economic theory is any good unless it deals with the future. 11) I believe diversity is a fundamental good, and any economic theory should highly value it.